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We are trying to create an environment where we consolidate live entertainment venues and bands to allow visitors to easily find what they are looking for. I need a few things cleared up for me. I have set up several venues. Then I receive a bands schedule and go to enter that. My question is should the band be the organizer? I like to carry band pics and bios links etc so I need to understand the most efficient way to handle data entry so I don't have to enter the same thing over and over again. Lets say a band called Band 1 sends me their schedule for the month with four dates, one per week at different venues. If I make the Band the event and choose a venue, how do I create an identical event only with a different venue? I see how to create multiple dates in the same venue which is great but that is not always the case. It would be great if there was a Band/Act entry section just like the venue entry. That way you would have a data base of venues and bands. I can't imagine I am the only one with this need. It would be kind of like a bar with two locations wanting to enter their entertainment schedules. Am I missing something?

We are trying to create an environment where we consolidate live entertainment venues and bands to allow visitors to easily find what they are looking for. I need a few things cleared up for me. I have set up several venues. Then I receive a bands schedule and go to enter that. My question is should the band be the organizer? I like to carry band pics and bios links etc so I need to understand the most efficient way to handle data entry so I don't have to enter the same thing over and over again. Lets say a…

While you can break events away from a series for editing, how about a way to take individually posted events that are the same and combine them in to a series. I have many end users who post a single date and then later post the same titled event for other dates/times. Would be great if they could be added together as a series for management.

For events that do not yet have a confirmed time or date, (for example, the presence of our favorite star in a 3 or 4 day festival) could include the option "not yet signed" "undefined" "open"... This for both days and hours.

I would like Template events in event calendar for the user to be able to create events from. Right now, the user who creates events for my organization is using events from the past that have been moved to the trash bin to create new events.

I am using event category for activities. I'd like to add a second category for cities and be able to call this category by shortcode to display all events checked off in this category. So I can build a real WP page based on the 2nd category term - instead of being limited to just having a shortcode for the first category.

In Events Settings, instead of a numerical value, I would like to be able to select an end date. Either select a date or “All events up to end of”…with a month-picker. As we have nothing scheduled in January, I would like to be able to select all events until the end of December, instead of having to change the number after each event, so February’s events don’t appear on the map before the end of the year!

As a public library, this calendar would be a powerful competitor to some of the most advanced library calendar software available if it would offer a room booking/reservation feature. We love The Events Calendar, but with multiple locations and rooms at each branch, we need to be able to keep track on the back end of what is happening and where, see conflicts, and reserve a room without creating a public event.

I believe a function that returns true for _all_ event related views should be part of the plugin.
It also should respect views from all other event related plugins maintained by you like "Event Tickets (Plus)", "Community Tickets" etc.

We run training courses for professional development in five day blocks.

People can, and often do, attend the full five-day block but others will want to attend individual day(s) within the block. It would be useful to have the five-day block as the parent event with each day as an individual child event.

As it stands I have to create five separate courses to monitor attendance for each course (annoying for people that want to book all five days as they have to go into each separate event to book a ticket) or create a five-day event with separate ticket types for Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday etc. This makes it easier for those booking, but managing attendees more difficult at the back end.

We run training courses for professional development in five day blocks.

People can, and often do, attend the full five-day block but others will want to attend individual day(s) within the block. It would be useful to have the five-day block as the parent event with each day as an individual child event.

As it stands I have to create five separate courses to monitor attendance for each course (annoying for people that want to book all five days as they have to go into each separate event to book a ticket) or create a five-day event with separate ticket…

We can already add venue info when creating an event, but then we have to open a new tab and find the newly added venue to add latitude and longitude info. Why can't we just add that while we're entering the other venue info within the event editor?